Theoretical and Practical Complexity of UML

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1669-1674

  Erickson, John ^a   Siau, Keng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

1669; complexity; complexity metrics; Delphi study; modeling method metrics; UML

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

COMPLEXITY; COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS; COMPLEXITY METRICS; DELPHI STUDY; DEVELOPMENT METHOD; MODEL METHOD; MODELING METHOD METRIC; NORDIC SPHERE; S-SYSTEMS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85139038283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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